Stan Spence

Stanley Orville Spence

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: March 20, 1915 in South Portsmouth, KY (All Transactions)
Debut: June 8, 1940
Teams (by GP): Senators/RedSox/Browns 1940-1949

Final Game: October 2, 1949
Died: January 9, 1983 in Kingston, NC
Buried: Maplewood Cemetery, Kinston, NC
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1940	BOS	AL	25	OF	15	8	8		15	15	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.970		2.40
1940	BOS	AL	25	RF	9	7	7		12	12	0	0	0	1.000		1.33	.970		2.09
1940	BOS	AL	25	LF	6	1	1		3	3	0	0	0	1.000		0.50	.963		2.33
1941	BOS	AL	26	OF	52	40	38		103	97	6	0	2	1.000		1.98	.973		2.41
1941	BOS	AL	26	LF	27	19	18		46	43	3	0	0	1.000		1.70	.975		2.31
1941	BOS	AL	26	RF	16	14	14		41	38	3	0	2	1.000		2.56	.969		2.14
1941	BOS	AL	26	CF	10	7	6		16	16	0	0	0	1.000		1.60	.976		2.79
1941	BOS	AL	26	1B	1	0	0		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.990		9.90
1942	WSH	AL	27	CF	149	148	146		412	394	7	11	0	.973		2.69	.981		2.80	AS,MVP-8
1942	WSH	AL	27	OF	149	149	146		413	395	7	11	0	.973		2.70	.976		2.38	AS,MVP-8
1942	WSH	AL	27	RF	1	1	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.970		2.10	AS,MVP-8
1943	WSH	AL	28	CF	148	146	144		415	396	12	7	1	.983		2.76	.978		2.79
1943	WSH	AL	28	OF	148	146	144		415	396	12	7	1	.983		2.76	.977		2.47
1944	WSH	AL	29	CF	150	148	147		468	434	29	5	9	.989		3.09	.979		3.01	AS,MVP-8
1944	WSH	AL	29	OF	150	148	147		468	434	29	5	9	.989		3.09	.974		2.47	AS,MVP-8
1944	WSH	AL	29	1B	3	3	3		21	20	0	1	0	.952		6.67	.990		10.07	AS,MVP-8
1946	WSH	AL	31	CF	150	149	145		435	412	15	8	3	.982		2.85	.984		2.74	AS,MVP-23
1946	WSH	AL	31	OF	150	149	145		435	412	15	8	3	.982		2.85	.977		2.36	AS,MVP-23
1947	WSH	AL	32	CF	142	140	136		427	408	12	7	3	.984		2.96	.983		2.95	AS,MVP-19
1947	WSH	AL	32	OF	142	140	136		427	408	12	7	3	.984		2.96	.979		2.47	AS,MVP-19
1948	BOS	AL	33	OF	92	90	84		215	206	4	5	1	.977		2.28	.975		2.51
1948	BOS	AL	33	RF	70	69	63		152	144	4	4	1	.974		2.11	.971		2.14
1948	BOS	AL	33	LF	25	21	21		61	60	0	1	0	.984		2.40	.975		2.34
1948	BOS	AL	33	1B	14	12	11		117	110	6	1	6	.991		8.29	.991		9.69
1949	TOT	AL	34	OF	92	84	80		231	219	11	1	2	.996		2.50	.980		2.44
1949	TOT	AL	34	CF	51	47	45		149	143	5	1	1	.993		2.90	.980		2.84
1949	TOT	AL	34	RF	10	8	7		19	18	1	0	0	1.000		1.90	.978		2.09
1949	BOS	AL	34	OF	5	5	5		15	14	1	0	0	1.000		3.00	.980		2.44
1949	BOS	AL	34	RF	3	3	3		6	6	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.978		2.10
1949	BOS	AL	34	CF	2	2	2		9	8	1	0	0	1.000		4.50	.980		2.85
1949	SLB	AL	34	OF	87	79	75		216	205	10	1	2	.995		2.47	.980		2.44
1949	SLB	AL	34	CF	49	45	43		140	135	4	1	1	.993		2.84	.980		2.84
1949	SLB	AL	34	LF	33	29	28		58	55	3	0	1	1.000		1.76	.982		2.36
1949	SLB	AL	34	RF	7	5	4		13	12	1	0	0	1.000		1.86	.978		2.09
1949	SLB	AL	34	1B	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			9.80
	9 Seasons			OF	990	954	928		2722	2582	96	44	21	.984		2.71	.977		2.44
	7 Seasons			CF	800	785	769		2322	2203	80	39	17	.983		2.85	.981		2.86
	5 Seasons			RF	106	99	91		225	213	8	4	3	.982		2.08	.971		2.13
	4 Seasons			LF	91	70	68		168	161	6	1	1	.994		1.84	.977		2.34
	4 Seasons			1B	19	15	14		140	132	6	2	6	.986		7.26	.991		9.77
	9 Seasons			TOT	1009	969	942		2862	2714	102	46	27	.984		2.79	.977		2.57
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP
1940	BOS	AL	25	RF
1940	BOS	AL	25	LF
1941	BOS	AL	26	LF
1941	BOS	AL	26	RF
1941	BOS	AL	26	CF
1941	BOS	AL	26	1B
1942	WSH	AL	27	CF
1942	WSH	AL	27	RF
1943	WSH	AL	28	CF
1944	WSH	AL	29	CF
1944	WSH	AL	29	1B
1946	WSH	AL	31	CF
1947	WSH	AL	32	CF
1948	BOS	AL	33	RF
1948	BOS	AL	33	LF
1948	BOS	AL	33	1B
1949	BOS	AL	34	RF
1949	BOS	AL	34	CF
1949	SLB	AL	34	CF
1949	SLB	AL	34	LF
1949	SLB	AL	34	RF
1949	SLB	AL	34	1B
	7 Seasons			CF
	5 Seasons			RF
	4 Seasons			LF
	4 Seasons			1B
	9 Seasons			TOT
Lg				Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1940	BOS	AL	25	51	8	51	15	0	6	0	9	15	36	0
1941	BOS	AL	26	86	40	86	52	1	27	10	16	52	34	1
1942	WSH	AL	27	149	149	149	149	0	0	149	1	149	0	0
1943	WSH	AL	28	149	146	149	148	0	0	148	0	148	1	0
1944	WSH	AL	29	153	151	153	153	3	0	150	0	150	0	0
1946	WSH	AL	31	152	149	152	150	0	0	150	0	150	2	0
1947	WSH	AL	32	147	140	147	142	0	0	142	0	142	6	0
1948	BOS	AL	33	114	102	114	106	14	25	0	70	92	11	0
1949	SLB	AL	34	104	79	104	88	1	33	49	7	87	18	0
1949	BOS	AL	34	7	5	7	5	0	0	2	3	5	2	0
	9 Seasons			1112	969	1112	1008	19	91	800	106	990	110	1

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1949	SLB	AL	34	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	1	30	18	0	15	2	1	3	1	0	8	1	0	12	10	0	68	32	47.1%	35	1	1.5%	2	1372	55%	84%	30%	184	58%
1949	BOS	AL	34	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	6	4	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	11	5	45.5%	5	1	9.1%	0	108	66%	83%	29%	15	60%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	1	1	36	22	1	19	2	1	3	1	0	8	1	0	13	11	0	79	37	46.8%	40	2	2.5%	2	1480	56%	84%	30%	199	58%
	MLB Averages																														46.5%			2.6%			61%	82%	31%		59%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1948	BOS	AL	33	4	0	4	0	0	3	0	1	2	0	28	11	1	18	3	0	9	4	0	6	2	0	13	10	0	74	30	40.5%	43	1	1.4%	2	2101	60%	84%	28%	210	52%
1949	SLB	AL	34	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	5	1	0	2	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	11	2	18.2%	8	1	9.1%	0	233	51%	84%	33%	33	39%
1949	BOS	AL	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	6	3	50.0%	3	0	0.0%	0	109	55%	82%	24%	12	50%
	2 Seasons			4	0	4	0	0	4	0	1	2	1	35	13	1	22	3	1	11	5	0	6	2	0	17	12	0	91	35	38.5%	54	2	2.2%	2	2443	59%	84%	28%	255	50%
	MLB Averages																														43.5%			2.9%			61%	82%	31%		52%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1948	BOS	AL	33	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	10	8	0	5	2	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	5	5	0	24	16	66.7%	8	0	0.0%	0	609	51%	84%	32%	73	55%
1949	SLB	AL	34	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	10	5	0	6	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	5	4	1	23	10	43.5%	12	1	4.3%	0	630	54%	87%	31%	63	43%
	2 Seasons			1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	20	13	0	11	2	0	5	2	0	1	0	0	10	9	1	47	26	55.3%	20	1	2.1%	0	1239	53%	85%	31%	136	49%
	MLB Averages																														57.5%			2.7%			61%	82%	31%		51%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1948	BOS	AL	33	373	66%	81%	27%	16	94%	1	87	3	83	1	9	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	1	100%
	1 Season			373	66%	81%	27%	16	94%	1	87	3	83	1	9	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	1	100%
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		93%																											88%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 1942 1944 (RF) 1946 * 1947 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1942 AL (8, 19%) 1944 AL (8, 17%) 1946 AL (23, 1%) 1947 AL (19, 3%) 0.40 Career Shares (514th)	Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 AL 149 (4th) 1943 AL 148 (1st) 1944 AL 150 (1st) 1946 AL 150 (1st) 1947 AL 142 (1st)	Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 AL 394 (3rd) 1943 AL 396 (2nd) 1944 AL 434 (2nd) 1946 AL 412 (1st) 1947 AL 408 (2nd) Career 2,203 (95th)
Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 AL 7 (4th) 1943 AL 12 (2nd) 1944 AL 29 (1st) 1946 AL 15 (1st) 1947 AL 12 (3rd) Career 80 (51st)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 AL 11 (1st) 1943 AL 7 (3rd) 1946 AL 8 (2nd) 1947 AL 7 (2nd) Career 39 (93rd)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1943 AL 148 (3rd) 1944 AL 150 (2nd) 1946 AL 150 (1st) 1947 AL 142 (3rd)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1942 AL 395 (3rd) 1943 AL 396 (2nd) 1944 AL 434 (2nd) 1946 AL 412 (1st) 1947 AL 408 (3rd)
Assists as OF s c a p y 1944 AL 29 (1st) 1946 AL 15 (2nd) 1947 AL 12 (4th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1942 AL 11 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL 2.76 (2nd) 1944 AL 3.09 (4th) 1946 AL 2.85 (2nd) 1947 AL 2.96 (4th) Career 2.85 (16th)	Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL .983 (3rd) 1944 AL .989 (3rd) 1946 AL .982 (5th) 1947 AL .984 (4th)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1943 AL 2.76 (3rd) 1944 AL 3.09 (3rd) 1946 AL 2.85 (2nd) 1947 AL 2.96 (4th) Career 2.71 (21st)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1944 AL .989 (2nd) 1949 AL .996 (1st)

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